foot carry to chest hooping
Dec 1st
Hoop Tricks; Learn to carry the hoop around your body using just your foot and then placing the hoop onto your chest…..yes…with just your foot!
To start this hula hooping trick, you need to be able to do a foot carry. You bring the hoop onto your foot (toes pointed up) and bring that leg around your body and grab the hoop from the opposite side you started on, back into your hand.
Duck in from behind the back
Nov 30th
Hoop Tricks; In this hula hooping trick you are going to learn how to spin the hoop behind your back and then do a back bend into the hoop, and take it back off again.
Start by hooping in wall plane one beat in front of your body and one beat behind your body. The hoop should be traveling CW if in right hand and CCW if in left hand. Hand placement will be palm out behind your back. As the hoop travels behind your back, stop the hoop while it is pointing up and bend backwards so that you are inside the hoop. Now do this faster and you should have the trick.
Raise the hoop
Nov 29th
How to raise your hula hoop from your waist above your head.
First start hooping and if you are hooping CW, then use your Left hand and stick it behind your back with your palm facing out. As soon as you feel the hoop roll over your hand, bring your arm into the air, leading with your elbow and try to bring your arm straight up. If you are getting all twisted and your arm is ending up on your right side, then try turning your body the same direction the hoop is going as you lift. Practice practice practice.
shoulder back roll
Nov 27th
In this hooping trick you will learn how to place the hoop on a vertical axis on your back and then duck out of it again.
Elbow Transfer
Nov 26th
How to do a behind the back elbow transfer.
Start by hooping forwards on one of your elbows. As the hoop comes behind you and you can sense that open space in the hoop, quickly rotate at your hips and stick your other elbow behind your back and into the open space of the hoop. The hoop should hook your elbow and then continue spinning backwards on the opposite side you began on.
jump out
Nov 24th
Hoop Tricks; Learn to jump out of your hoop, yet another way.
Start by hooping on your body and grabbing the hoop behind your back. Keep twirling the hoop as you tilt the hoop opposite your hand away from your body and then jump out of it. Viola! You have learned a new trick with your hula hoop.
How to do a back roll
Nov 23rd
Hoop Tricks; How to roll your hula hoop along your back
Start by spinning the hoop towards your self in the wall plane. Look to the hand that is spinning the hoop and place the hoop on your arm with enough momentum so that the hoop will roll all the way over to your other hand. Did I forget to mention that your chest is going to need to be angled towards the floor? Watch the hoop roll down your arm and then turn your head to look for the hoop so you can grab it and keep on hooping.
Cat-eye-solations
Nov 23rd
Hoop Tricks; Learn some isolations with your hoop.
This trick is just a lot of fun to play around with and will start to give you a lot of control over your hand hooping and isolations.
